There is a problem with your installation. The BOINC client has not found a manual installation of the app_info.xml and the OpenBSD SETi application. Have you installed the SETI@home application, too ? - A SETI@home and Astropulse application is available at my homepage www.dotsch.de/seti.

If you have installed the SETI application manualy, could you please verify, if in /opt/boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu the files app_info.xml and setiathome-5.27...
If the files exists, stop the BOINC client and start it again with "./boinc_client --update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu"

If you have installed the SETI application manualy, could you please verify, if in /opt/boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu the files app_info.xml and setiathome-5.27...
If the files exists, stop the BOINC client and start it again with "./boinc_client --update_prefs http://setiathome.berkeley.edu"

Thanks for the reply!

It appears to be working now, the app uses preferred cpu% settings.

If someone else has the same problem I did, you could try:
1 $./boinc_client --detach_project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ #this command removed the files in the project directory

2 download and $tar zxvfp seti_boinc-5.27.00-openbsd-i386.tar.gz #because the needed project files were gone due to the previous action